What does a Zippo lighter cost overseas...and Why?

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Gregory W. Booth, President and CEO of Zippo manufacturing tells us why simple Zippo lighters are so expensive in countries like China and Brazil.

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theme
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the new well like any
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US manufactured shipping offshore Zippo
Manufacturing Company
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has its challenges with things like
terrorists let me
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consider a perfect example we ship
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litres
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the child those lighters are taxed at a
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litres manufactured in China and being
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are only tax at a rate of about 9
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is a fair inequitable level playing
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expected to grow in the United States
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throughout the far east and in some
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Brazil for example tariffs are even
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when zippo ships a lighter to Brazil
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may ship may sell in Brazil for
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in order for us to reduce the tariffs in
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Brazil
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Pennsylvania
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and have no reason to change that we
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